Canvassing

That was my feeling after walking the streets of Broward with Sharena and Flavia, two of Florida New Majority’s canvassers who are mobilizing voters for tomorrow’s election. Almost every day during the last month, Sharena and Flavia, as well as 10 other canvassers, laced up their walking shoes and knocked…

Nation-wide, pundits and pollsters have inundated us with talk that progressives have lost the traction gained in the 2008 election, and that we’re suffering a widespread enthusiasm gap. Early last week, I went on a road trip to visit the Florida New Majority canvassing sites in the I-4 Corridor and…

My daughter, like a lot of teens, is usually sequestered in her room blogging, facebooking or texting at the speed of light. When I suggested that she should apply to a volunteer internship sponsored by Florida New Majority I was not sure if the response would be the pleading “Mom…

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We, the people of Florida, declare that too many of our families and communities face declining wages, staggering workloads, mounting debt, unemployment, homelessness, violent and declining neighborhoods, schools in crisis, unaffordable health care, incarceration, deportation, and isolation; that our state belongs to all who live in it, and that we cannot be prosperous until all residents enjoy equal rights and opportunities; that our success is measured by our treatment of the least fortunate, not the most wealthy; that we stand together now to insist that every family in every neighborhood has an equal opportunity to prosper.